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Re:What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove? by Woung1938 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:39AM (#26644855)
Is there a high-to-low level design document to read on how to verify the timestamp? A simple OP_RETURN + hash output in a transaction is dead simple to verify (just get the transaction from any place, see the output, check the timestamp). I'd like to compare OTS with it.
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Re:What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove? by petertodd on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:49AM (#26644917)
Not really. But if you understand the basics of how OTS works, it's fairly easy to figure out how to do that with the `ots info` command. Basically, it just prints out the raw commitment operations the timestamp proof performs, letting you follow along.

Note that OTS proofs do not have any notion of a transaction in them. Rather, they perform commitment operations that end up at a merkle root of a Bitcoin block (at least in the 99.9999% of proofs that use Bitcoin). With the `--no-bitcoin` option, the OTS client will tell you what block # to look for, and what the merkle should be for the proof to be valid.

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